"I work intuitively, so moving between architecture, video, gaming and music has evolved organically. I've realised that my practice is really about different forms of immersion, which is a word that gets thrown around a lot. I think of immersion as a state of perception-the point at which you forget that you are fully within the medium. The performance at the Tate Tanks was about the immersion in the present moment that you get with music."
"A mark of Lek's global reach, as well as the allure of his Smart City series (which includes NOX), this year he has performed NOX (Live) in the Tanks at Tate Modern; exhibited a new installation, NOX High-Rise, at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; and held a survey show at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in London, Life Before Automation (until 14 December)."
Lawrence Lek has developed a cinematic universe that replaces senseless spectacle with a critical inquiry into the posthuman condition. NOX ("nonhuman excellence") envisages a rehabilitation centre for non-compliant self-driving cars and appears across multiple formats and institutions worldwide. Projects have included NOX (Live) performed in the Tate Tanks, NOX High-Rise at the Hammer Museum, a survey show Life Before Automation at Goldsmiths CCA, and NOX Pavilion at the Bass Museum. Lek treats immersion as a perceptual state and adapts his practice across architecture, video, gaming and music, staging NOX as a real-time video game and a form of expanded cinema.
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